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The Mating Call is a american film of genre Drama directed by James Cruze released in USA on 21 july 1928 with Thomas Meighan

The Mating Call (1928)

The Mating Call
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Released in USA 21 july 1928
Length 1h12
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating67% 3.386023.386023.386023.386023.38602

The Mating Call is a 1928 pre-Code silent drama film about a soldier who returns home from World War I to find his marriage has been annulled and his wife has remarried. The film was produced by Howard Hughes for his Caddo Corporation, and was originally released by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a novel, The Mating Call, by Rex Beach. In 2006, the film was restored and re-released by Turner Classic Movies in partnership with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, along with two other Hughes-produced films Two Arabian Knights (1927) and The Racket (1928). Renée Adorée had a brief nude scene in the film.

Synopsis

Leslie Hatton, a poor farmer, becomes a captain and a war hero in World War I. While on a leave, he secretly marries Rose, the "village belle", but he only has time for a few kisses and a hug before he has to return to the fighting. After the Armistice, Major Hatton comes home, only to be told by Marvin Swallow that his wife's parents have had their marriage annulled, as she was not of age. Rose married wealthy Lon Henderson and the couple went abroad. Les returns to farming.

Actors

Thomas Meighan

(Leslie Hatten)Evelyn Brent

(Rose Henderson)Renée Adorée

(Catharine)Alan Roscoe

(Lon Henderson)Helen Foster

(Jessie Peebles)
And :
Cyril Chadwick
Will Walling
Delmer Daves
Herman J. Mankiewicz
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